Baby Boy Monaghan
He/him
Minneapolis, MN
Baby Boy Monaghan is a playwright, author and journalist in Minneapolis.

Plays

by Baby Boy Monaghan

Inspired by the life of author Truman Capote, CRUELTIES follows, in reverse chronological order, the downward spiral of a popular author after writing an immensely successful crime book.

The play takes the form of six dialogues between a Capote-like writer and significant people in his life at significant moments, like a murder mystery that works its way backwards to a moment that was both the author’s greatest success and the start of his fatal decline.

Cast:
Author — male, 50s; Editor — female, 50s; Interviewer — male, 50s; Hustler — male, 20s; The Mick — male, 50s; The Cowboy — male, 20s.
by Baby Boy Monaghan

chelsea tells the story of two periods in the life of an artist, inspired by Andy Warhol, and how his relationships change as his career progresses. In the first act, the artist is starting to experience a trickle of success, and has started to change in response to it; the second act looks in several years later, when the artist has achieved international success and is in the process of filming an experimental film, made disastrous by the jealous, competitive behavior of its two actors.

Cast:
A: An artist, styled after Andy Warhol; B: In the first act, an artist; in the second act, a drag queen; C: A girl
by Baby Boy Monaghan

A two scene story of two actors. In scene one, a dead Hollywood actress, in the waiting room to hell, desperately tries to communicate her chaotic story and life lessons to her former lover, a punky rising star. In scene two, the rising star, now haunted by the actress, demonstrates that neither is a reliable narrator, and tries to find some peace.

Cast:
LULU and BUMPS — an older and younger actress, played by the same performer, Female.
by Baby Boy Monaghan and Coco Mault

A tall tale of a long haul. Co-written with Coco Mault, TRUCKER UPPERS tells the story of an amphetamine-addicted trucker making a suicidal last-minute run to New Orleans in time for Mardi Gras, pursued the entire way by Bigfoot and an increasing collection of eccentric roadside characters that he has wronged.

Cast:
RHOADES JOHNSON, male, 40s to 50s; NARRATOR, male or female, adult
by Baby Boy Monaghan

HE OLDER GENTLEMAN tells of a young man's coming of age in rural Nebraska in the Sixties, and his relationship with an older voice tutor, a gay man who once fled Nebraska for Hollywood, and has now returned.

Cast:
BOY — male, 20s; PIANIST — female, 50s; COLLEGE CHUM — male, 20s; OLDER GENTLEMAN — male, 60s; PHYSICAL HEALTH TEACHER — male, 50s; RECRUITMENT OFFICER — male, 30s; CIVICS TEACHER — male, 30s; ROBERT TAYLOR — male, 50s
by Baby Boy Monaghan and Coco Mault

A 25-minute play, co-authored by Coco Mault, telling the story of Mary McLane, the controversial early 20th century author who wrote an entire book in which she imagined the devil as her lover. The play tells of the making of her lost 1918 film Men Who Have Made Love to Me, but also tells the story of Harriet Williams, a Black woman, artist, and companion to MacLane, who has been forgotten by history and is furious about the fact. The play won the 2018 Susan Glaspell Short Play Award.

Cast:
MARY MACLANE — woman, white, late-30s; GEORGE SPOOR — man, white, 40s; HARRIET WILLIAMS — woman, Black, 40s.
by Baby Boy Monaghan

A STAGED READING is a 30-minute play that tells the story of an especially disastrous public reading of a script that is either the worst ever written or legitimately visionary. The director is abusive, the cast is incompetent and drug-addled, and the playwrights is both violent and present in the audience.

Cast:
Six, of any gender, race, and age.

Successes

Paws 'n' Effect by Off-Leash Area, featuring dialogue written by Max Sparber and Coco Mault, was performed Sept. 15-16, 2018.

Won the Susan Glaspell Short Play Award, 2018, with I Await the Devil’s Coming, coauthored with Coco Mault.